A previously convicted sex offender is now facing 25 to 50 years in prison after being found guilty of raping a woman in a York home in 2019.
61-year-old Kenneth Haywood Harris Jr. faced sentencing on Jan. 6, 2022 after he was found guilty of rape forcible compulsion, sexual assault and criminal attempt - rape forcible compulsion on May 21, 2021.
Harris, whose listed address is York County Prison, was charged in July 2019 in connection to the sexual assault, which occurred on June 11, 2019 in an apartment building on the 100 block of South Beaver Street.
According to police, a resident of the building called dispatch to report they could hear someone yelling for help. The caller said the woman was yelling that she was being raped, police say.
Officers reported to the scene, heard the woman yelling, and entered the apartment, according to the criminal complaint affidavit. There, they say, officers found a naked man, later identified as Harris, getting off of a woman.
The victim told police Harris forced her to the ground and assaulted her multiple times before police arrived, the complaint states. The victim said she struck Harris in the face and unsuccessfully tried to push him off.
Harris was convicted in 1993 of a sexual assault in New Jersey. He is required to register on the Megan’s Law list of sexual offenders for life.
